Russkie-Smashers SUB-MARINER "and the Secret Tunnel!"

While Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner is easily one of the most powerful Timely/Atlas/Marvel heroes...

...he ain't one of the brightest...or is he???

Written and illustrated by Subby's creator, Bill Everett, this tale from Atlas' Sub-Mariner Comics #40 (1955) was a classic example of the tricksters themselves being tricked!

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Russkie-Smashers SUB-MARINER (and Namora) "Unseen Invaders"

Let's celebrate the New Year enthusiastically with even MORE Russkie-Smashing...

...featuring Marvel's (retroactively) first mutant, Prince Namor and his cousin, Namora!

Written and illustrated by Subby's creator, Bill Everett, this tale from Atlas' Sub-Mariner V1N37 (1954) shows that, while Namor is as anti-Russkie as he was anti-Axis in World War II, Americans still don't trust him!

Marvel Multiverse note: the aliens resemble the Badoon, officially-introduced in Marvel's Silver Surfer #2 (1968)...who also used invisibility and flying saucers!
Bill Everett brought the Badoon into his final run on Subby in the 1970s...as allies of Namor's evil cousin Prince Byrrah!

Coincidence?

I think not!

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Russkie-Smashers MEN'S ADVENTURES "Sub-Mariner (and Namora) in 'Killer Whales' "

Time, once again, to kick Commie butt...

...with the super-powered guy who hates all surface men...but especially Russkies!

And you wonder why he's an "anti-hero"?

Namor's creator, Bill Everett, wrote and illustrated this tale from Atlas' Men's Adventure #28 (1954) which shows Americans make mistakes, too!

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Russkie-Smashers YOUNG MEN COMICS "Sub-Mariner (and Namora) in 'Pirates vs Pirates' "

 Even we make mistakes!

Last week's story wasn't Prince Namor's first Russkie-Smashing adventure!

This was!

When you look at the first couple of pages, it's easy to not realize this tale from Atlas' Young Men Comics #27 (1954), penciled and inked by Bill Everett (with a layout assist by Bob Powell), involves Russkies, so our inadvertent mistake is understandable.

Tomorrow:

Before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever...

Namora and the Mayans
at our "sister" RetroBlog
HEROINES!

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(Note: the Young Men Comics and other 1950s tales were actually post-Golden Age, and were technically Atlas Comics stories, as shown in the Marvel Masterworks: Atlas-Era Heroes reprints of those same stories!)

Russkie Smashers YOUNG MEN COMICS "Sub-Mariner in the Land Below the Sun!"

Along with Captain America, both the Golden Age Human Torch and Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner...

...battled Russkies (and Red Chinese) for a couple of years in the 1950s!

Though Namor (like Captain America & Bucky and the Human Torch & Toro) had returned in Atlas' Young Men #24 (1953), his first few stories were sci-fi/fantasy-oriented!

This tale, written and illustrated by creator Bill Everett from Atlas' Young Men #28 (1954), was his first Russkie-smashing adventure, but with supernatural elements...making it quite apropos for Halloween, eh?
BTW, note that almost all the Atlantians have big "bug eyes" and green skin, but Dorma, who wasn't half-human like Namor, has Caucasian flesh-tone!
When she was re-introduced in the Silver Age, they gave her the standard blue skin (and human eyes) all the other Atlantians had!

Next Week, 
Sub-Mariner Returns in Two Adventures...
A Russkie-Smashing Saga
and
His First Bronze-Age Encounter with...
The Black Panther!
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